Matty Lapointe-Smith’s Reviews > The New Penguin History of the World > Status Update

I started this book 5 1/2 years ago and am finally closing in on the last 100 pages. I've learned a lot and enjoyed the read but I'm looking for something a little lighter for my next book. Kind of a summer read type thing except in March. Any suggestions?

“National stereotypes cannot be summarized in a phrase, but because they helped to impose terrible simplifications upon public reactions they are part of the story of the disruptive power of nationalist feeling at the beginning of the twentieth century.”

Hmm...doesn’t seem like much has changed in 100 years.

“This was one reason why Europeans were so successful; what were taken to be demonstrations of the inherent superiority of European ideas and values nerved men to fresh assaults on the world and inspired fresh incomprehension of it.”